On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote: > The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael' > user account (mine's a single user system). Michael is a member of > group pid and dialout. > > When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint: > > You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or > /etc/ppp.options_out > > ls -l on ppp.chatscript: > > -rw------- 1 root root 235 Nov 27 11:54 > /etc/ppp.chatscript > > ls -l on ppp.options_out: > > -rw------- 1 root root 108 Nov 27 12:01 > /etc/ppp.options_out > > Clearly these files have the wrong permissions or owners. Which is it?
Make these files mode 640 owner root group dialout. > > PS. I had installed Netscape Communicator vis dpkg (took a while to get > the tar file named correctly). However, I didn't like the setup because > it wouldn't run as root. So I deinstalled via dpkg then used the > netscape install script. Any problems with that? > > PPS. I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well. It took a while to > figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself. I thought Java was > included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because > I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)? > > -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian! http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linux http://www.debian.org/ ----------- "If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption"
